How To Get Over an EXISTENTIAL CRISIS

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Music and Animation by IZAAK THOMAS 🎶🎶:

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"On Settling" by Robert Goodin
"The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
"Hiking with Nietzsche" by Jonathan Kaag
"Siddharta" by Herman Hesse

[Caiiiiiiiiii]

How dare you tell me I have the totally reasonable limits of one human person.

[lnhp]

i can't put into words how more at ease this whole channel makes me feel with my clinical depression. really helps to put things into perspective

[jeraldbaxter]

Thank you. The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the too closely and constantly examined life is hell; like a car stuck in deep mud, the mind spins and strains, going no where, only throwing up muck and sinking deeper into a hole. Examine and consider, but then act; do not fret too much about making the "right" decision, there is no perfect choice.

[ricopena]

My existential crisis is the same one that plagues the planet right now. A forest I used to play in as a child is now a Walmart. The river is so polluted that there are signs that say don’t eat the fish. The smokestacks at the local factory are dispersing various fluorocarbons into the air. I failed my community and my people. The world is officially a worse place than when I was born.

[somerandomguyfromgori]

Literally what I needed at this very moment when the vid is uploaded

[catarinacorreia]

I've always been repulsed by the often proclaimed phrase of "It was all for nothing". Especially when refering to relationships. I've been present in cyclical relationships, where nothing ever seems to go nowhere, nothing seems to be official even tho I do try for it to be. When confiding to those who are closest to me, I often hear that phrase, and I quickly jump in to defend those affairs. Not because I wish to reunite, not because of illusion making me blind to reality. But because anulling an individual, a connection, the memories, turning them into nothing when they once were something so sentimental always seemed so dishonest, like ignoring the feelings that I was once so sure existed. I do not strive for the need of denial of something to move on. I cannot separate myself from the lesson I was lucky enough to learn, despite being treated so wrongly. So even in all the hurt, I rejoice in knowing I felt something

[masscreationbroadcasts]

Instructions unclear, I stopped existing.

[CODMASTER]

You're my favorite channel in recent years. I love your production style and the topics you cover always pick my brain in the best way. Thank you Sisyphus :)

[cloudxlofi]

OH GOOD HEAVENS, SISYPHUS HAS UPLOADED

[beatnik]

Currently reading The Bell Jar once again after 10 years. The first time I read it I was going through an existential crisis. Now I'm going through an existential crisis once again. Esther (even if feeling lost herself) always keeps me company, and this video referencing Nietzsche and Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha comes at a crucial moment in my life.

[theafern]

sisyphus 55 causes me an existential crisis

[sophiaisabelle]

Truth is, you don't get over it. You don't move on from it. It sticks with you for a very long time.

[LeakyOrifices]

I put my notice in at my job recently as one of those (very very slow) realisation moments of needing to do 'something else' with my life. I am the most free and untethered I have ever been and also the most terrified. This brings me some comfort that, since I've managed to make *a* choice, I can work the rest out as it goes. I have to and I will, because it's my life after all.

[antlerbraum]

I really relate to this video, I’ve often been overwhelmed by the number choices and the potential importance of these choices.

[carpo]

There's nothing wrong with settling, sometimes it's just what we need. We just have to remember that we have dreams and hopes, and nurture those over time. In order to nurture them to fruition though we have to have consistency in ritual. At almost 50...for me... there are some things you just have to learn with time that I'm realizing

[selfimprovement]

"I appreciate your emphasis on taking action. Do you have any tips for overcoming fear of failure?"

[SimpForLatinas]

I never considered myself to be anxious or depressed. But after watching this video i think i might have been living in anxiety and depression my whole life without knowing. Childhood trauma caused by strict and overprotective mother, that forbid me from any experience at all just so she could protect me. Thank you for your insight, it helped me understand myself better. You're a good man Sisyphos.

[SyreLikeAFire]

it’s crazy how most every generation of humanity has had a pretty wise philosopher express their contemplations on the low-downs of life; crazier still (as in insanely epic still )that we live in the generation of this channel’s fabulous formulation of philosophical ideas!! :’)

[finntasticexplanations]

You summed up the analysis paralysis with the decision tree all to well. I've never thought of this before and it seemed dead right to me. Sylvia was an excellent writer and her insight being relevant today really proves this to me, thanks.

[OpenSourceAnarchist]

But in open individualism, I am the fig tree and all the figs. In empty individualism, I am only ever the singular time-slice of a moment of qualia/experience with an illusion of psychological continuity. The attachment is what I can control, regardless of whether I can or do "experience everything". To experience everything is to be Mara, to be deluded in Samsara. Rather than an absurdist laughter and stable identity, I will join the monastery and learn to be okay with being no one. Nothing will ever make me satisfied. Cultivate dispassion <3